Summary

Governments, both provincial and federal, turn a blind eye to the senseless slaughter of wolves, regardless of the evidence put before them. Instead, they fueled the fire by offering a twenty dollar bounty on any wolf killed and many trappers find that they not only supplement their income, but use wolf kill as an income mainstay. Unfortunately, overall opinion of wolves is so low that none of the governments involved care how the wolves are killed. Rather than simply catching wolves in traps or even shooting them, many trappers use strychnine liberally and kill everything in a given area. The result is the widespread killing of every fox, wolverine, and other flesh eater in a given region. One trapper boasted that he’d killed over a hundred of the wolves in a single season. The killing didn’t stop there...